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Stimulus money and you: Why are deceased people still getting checks?

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Matt Rourke/AP

Blank stimulus checks are seen on an idle press at the Philadelphia Regional Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies, in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 8, 2008. The first batch of rebate payments started hitting bank accounts last week through direct deposits. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials are visiting government check printing centers around the country on Thursday for events highlighting the fact that millions of rebate checks are in the mail. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

A lot of you still don't have your stimulus money. And you still can't get answers about where it may be or if it's even coming.

But at the same time, deceased Arizonans ARE getting stimulus checks!

Doug Erickson is one of nearly a dozen people over the last few weeks, who let me know their deceased parents or siblings received checks. Doug's dad died two years ago. He says, "I couldn't believe they're sending a check to dead people."

He and others wrote me because they couldn't get any answers from the Internal Revenue Service or Treasury Department.

This week, the IRS did provide some information about what to do.

On it's website, they say if a deceased person received a check, write VOID on it.

If the money came through direct deposit, write a check made out to US Treasury for the amount.